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Decorative drawing: a small American settlement seen from a low hill. Not a photograph of this place.

Falls Junction, Ohio

15 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1906 and the latest in 1994. It stands in Glenwillow Village. It lies in ZIP code area 44139. It stands on Beaver Meadow Run. The Survey maps it on the Twinsburg quadrangle.

Falls Junction within Cuyahoga County

Then and now

1906 to 1994

The same ground, surveyed 88 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet of Falls Junction, surveyed 1994
Topographic sheet of Falls Junction, surveyed 1906

Compare 1906 against another survey:

Topographic sheets covering this place

15 sheets

Matched by testing this settlement's coordinate against the published boundary of every sheet in the United States Geological Survey's historical collection. Each opens the scanned sheet at the Survey.

Specimens collected nearby

12 of 1,642 shown

Museums hold 1,642 specimens collected within 10 miles of Falls Junction between 1877 and 1975: 1,581 Animalia, 35 Plantae, 22 Fungi, 3 Protozoa, 1 incertae sedis. 12 distinct Species records are shown. Collected by A. Hall, A. Woolman, AUSLEY, G and others. Each is a physical object with a catalogue number, and each entry opens the museum's record. This is what was collected and kept, not a survey of what lives here - nothing can be concluded from a species being absent.

Image SpeciesYear Collected by Where, as recorded
Specimen of Osmunda regalis var. spectabilis (Willd.) A.GrayOsmunda regalis var. spectabilis (Willd.) A.Gray1897Winkler, H.J.Cleveland. Moist woods.
A photograph of the species Empidonax flaviventris, not of this specimenEmpidonax flaviventris (W.M.Baird & S.F.Baird, 1843)1877A. HallCuyahoga
A photograph of the species Agelaius phoeniceus, not of this specimenAgelaius phoeniceus phoeniceus (Linnaeus, 1766)1884William DoertenbachIndependence
A photograph of the species Molothrus ater, not of this specimenMolothrus ater ater (Boddaert, 1783)1884William DoertenbachIndependence
A photograph of the species Cryptotaenia canadensis, not of this specimenCryptotaenia canadensis (L.) DC.1890R. H. IngrahamMiles
A photograph of the species Ambloplites rupestris, not of this specimenAmbloplites rupestris (Rafinesque, 1817)1893A. WoolmanCuyohoga River, Independence, Ohio
A photograph of the species Ameiurus melas, not of this specimenAmeiurus melas (Rafinesque, 1820)1893not recordedCuyahoga River, Independence, Ohio
A photograph of the species Ammocrypta pellucida, not of this specimenAmmocrypta pellucida (Putnam, 1863)1893not recordedCuyahoga River, Independence, Ohio
A photograph of the species Carpiodes cyprinus, not of this specimenCarpiodes cyprinus cyprinus1893not recordedCuyahoga River, Independence, Ohio
A photograph of the species Catostomus commersonii, not of this specimenCatostomus commersonii (Lacepède, 1803)1893A. WoolmanCuyohoga River, Independence, Ohio
A photograph of the species Cyprinus carpio, not of this specimenCyprinus carpio Linnaeus, 17581893not recordedCuyahoga River, Independence, Ohio
A photograph of the species Etheostoma caeruleum, not of this specimenEtheostoma caeruleum Storer, 18451893A. WoolmanAurora Branch, Chagrin River, Ohio

All 1,642 specimens within 10 miles, at the Global Biodiversity Information Facility.

Mines and quarries nearby

7 within 5 miles

The federal mineral resources record lists 7 workings within 5 miles of Falls Junction: 5 past producers, 1 producer, 1 unknown. 1 still produces. What was taken out: Stone, Crushed/Broken, Sand and Gravel, Construction, Zirconium. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Where SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
Zircoa Refractories/ Solon, OhioZirconiumUnknown
Leone Sand and Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast ProducerSedimentary
Leone Sand and Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Cannon Sand and Rock, Inc. QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenPast ProducerSedimentary
Cannon Sand and Rock, Inc. QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
Silica, Incorporated QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenPast ProducerSedimentary
Twinsburg QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer

Every working recorded in Cuyahoga County

Nearest settlements

The eight closest, with where each one stands in the county. Distances are straight-line, computed from the Geographic Names Information System coordinates.

Map PlaceDistance Sheets
Glenwillow0.4 miles15
Applecreek Village1.6 miles15
Cowans (historical)2.0 miles17
Oakwood2.3 miles15
Solon2.6 miles17
Evergreen Manor3.8 miles17
Bedford4.5 miles14
North Solon4.7 miles17

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1048727. The sheet list is computed by point-in-boundary test against the United States Geological Survey's historical topographic inventory. Both are works of the United States government and carry no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105.

Specimens. Global Biodiversity Information Facility (GBIF), https://www.gbif.org/. Only records licensed CC0 or CC BY are used. Records licensed CC BY-NC are excluded because this site carries advertising. Images are checked individually and any whose licence is non-commercial, no-derivatives or unreadable is refused.

Mines and quarries. USGS Mineral Resources Data System (MRDS) https://mrdata.usgs.gov/mrds/ A work of the United States government, no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105.